In myĀ last articleĀ forĀ Jacobin, I praised āthe republican theory of freedomā ā the idea that the most important kind of freedom is freedom…
Representative Rashida Tlaib (D-MI) has been under heavy fire for the last week. During a seminar last Tuesday on online activism, she…
The final leader of the Soviet Union, Mikhail Gorbachev, was laid to rest on Saturday in Moscow. It wasnāt officially designated as…
When a reporter asked President Joe Biden on his way out of a press conference whether canceling the first $10,000 of student…
Kansas is, to put it mildly, not a particularly liberal state. The last Democrat to carry it in a presidential election was…
RememberĀ universal pre-K? RememberĀ universal paid family and medical leave? RememberĀ tuition-free community college? These werenāt planks of the Bernie Sanders 2020 platform scorned by…
What would the last two years have been like if Bernie Sanders had beaten Joe Biden for the Democratic nomination and won…
Pennsylvaniaās John Fetterman has surprised many commentators by establishing an early lead in his Senate race against GOP nominee Mehmet Oz, aka…
I recently debatedĀ Project Veritas founder James OāKeefe, along with Tim Pool and Tulsi Gabbard, at the Beacon Theatre in New York. It…
We need an abortion rights movement that organizes beyond individual elections and fights for reproductive freedom as part of a federal universal health plan
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